A postcard view along Andrássy Street, today's Njegoševa, toward the Hungarian Royal State Civic Girls' School at what is now Njegoševa 22. The large historicist school building stands behind a row of lower houses while several pedestrians occupy the still unpaved street. The state civic girls' school in Újvidék had opened in the 1876–77 school year following an initiative by Hungarian education minister Ágoston Trefort. Its purpose-built school building was erected here in 1895 and is attributed by local heritage research to architect Béla Pekló. After 1918 the building continued to serve education, housing the State Women's Gymnasium from 1919; today it is Gimnazija "Svetozar Marković".
About this place
A short street of just under 350 metres running from Liberty Square past Trifković Square, first settled by German merchants from 1739-40; part of it already appears on the 1745 city plan and it had its present outline by the end of the 18th century. It was long known as White Ship street (German Weisse Schiff-Gasse, Hungarian Fehér-hajó utca) after the famous Bela lađa tavern at No. 5, then renamed after Hungarian prime minister Gyula Andrássy in the 1890s, and after the First World War given the name of the poet-bishop Petar II Petrović Njegoš. Its landmarks include the Art Nouveau Iron Man palace of 1909 at No. 2 and the 1880s school building at No. 22, built as a Hungarian state girls' school and now the Svetozar Marković Gymnasium.
On the card
UJVIDEK — M. kir. állami polgári leányiskola. / NEUSATZ — K. ung. Staats-Mädchenbürgerschule. / […] LEÁNYISKOLA
Újvidék — Hungarian Royal State Civic Girls' School. / Neusatz — Royal Hungarian State Girls' Civic School. / […] girls' school
- Date
- 1900s
- Coordinates
- 45.25710, 19.84300
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 750 × 475 px
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